ABC · Ended

The Associates

Comedy · 1979

Last aired: S1 E10, The Party · 1980-04-17

From the makers of Taxi came this ensemble comedy about lawyers, which could have been called Firm. "It revolved around three young law school graduates who had just joined the prestigious firm of Bass and Marshall as associates, beginning their five-to-seven-year trial period. Daughter of a poor New York family, Leslie recently graduated from Columbia, and felt for the oppressed. Bass and Marshall did not usually represent the oppressed. Tucker...was a Midwesterner slightly out of step with his Ivy League Colleagues, a little naive but very charming. Sara was a Boston blueblood, bright as well as sexy. They were all at the mercy of a hierarchy including such oddballs as formidable but slightly dotty Senior Partner Emerson Marshall...and dedicated junior partner Eliot Streeter, who had only one goal -- to take over the firm...Counterpointing all this class was Johnny Danko, the 21-year-old mailboy, whose only goal was to make time with beautiful chicks."

Cast

Martin Short Tucker Kerwin

Joe Regalbuto Eliot Streeter

Tim Thomerson Johnny Danko

Alley Mills Leslie Dunn

Shelley Smith Sara James

Wilfrid Hyde-White Emerson Marshall

Season 1

E1 The First Day 1979-09-23 · 30 min

E2 Is Romance Dead? 1979-09-30 · 30 min

E3 Tucker's Courtroom Coup 1979-10-07 · 30 min

E4 Mr. Marshall's Love Affair 1979-10-14 · 30 min

E5 A Date with Johnny 1979-10-21 · 30 min

E6 The Deadly Serve 1979-10-28 · 30 min

E7 Eliot's Revenge 1980-03-27 · 30 min

E8 Danko's a Daddy 1980-04-03 · 30 min

E9 The Censors 1980-04-10 · 30 min Tucker is sent on a laugh-filled mission to Hollywood to help a TV censor persuade the producer of a comedy show to tone down an episode the network thinks is much too sexy — but his job becomes very difficult when he laughs hysterically at the scene in question.

E10 The Party 1980-04-17 · 30 min

E11 Tucker's Co-op 30 min

E12 Inferno 30 min

E13 The Out of Town Trip 30 min

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